An embodiment of the present invention is directed to implementing a data usage analytics engine for database systems. An embodiment of the present invention is directed to implementing a Data Usage Analysis engine that receives queries (e.g., SQL queries), tables (e.g., Internal Catalog tables) and/or other data formats as input. An embodiment of the present invention may then parse the queries and identify various data usage patterns. This may include details concerning what tables are used, how much data is queried at what intervals, frequency of querying along what attributes are used in the queries and/or other usage details in various levels of granularity.